Well I took a picture to the Picnik and was surprised. This program is free and is simple and easy to use. Though it has enough advance option that it makes using it worth your wild. Picnik allows the family photographer or lets say the non professional a program that will give the basic Photoshop plus a few neat enhancements. You are able to in this program to do the basic editing as well as some fun enhancements. Under the create option you able to add frame, text, psychedelic color schemes, and a lot more. Some of these options cost, but the free ones are fun. This program would be useful for those art type classes or if students are making flyers using photos they could manipulate them in a serious way or a fun way. This program is a neat, basic and free. I will let my wife know about it. But she probably already knows about it.
Know lets see what Picasa can do and I hope this none creative human can understand what this Atomic learning segment is saying. The interface of Picasa is a lot more involved. The pictures you have can be organize into albums. Which can be categorized into files and folders. You can tag your photos, which essentially allows you to categorize them into categories like star or blog photos. You can search your photos for specific photos. When selecting your photos they pop up in your selection tray, which is on the bottom left of your screen. Once you put the photos in the tray you can then decide to upload them into an email or select various other action for those photos.
Picasa is like Picnik in that the basic function of editing images is available. Unlike Picnik Picasa organization of the photos is what impresses me. The movies option allows you to take photos, video, and music to form a movie. You have the option of selecting individual photos, as well as, use an album that you put together as your photos for your movie. You can take out certain photos and add photos. So your not stuck with what is in the album. Syncing the music and the photos together is farly east and you have timing options that will allow you to specify the rhythm of the music and photos. You can also determine what happens in between the slides. You are also able to add text only slide and phtot and text slide. So this would be useful in a presentation for a student.
Picasa and Picnik are well round programs that allow the begginner photographer or the advance to manipulate and organize their photos in practical and complex ways depending on the occasion. I will like to look into this programs when I have more time. But until them That's all Folks.
Nice work, Tim.
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